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- Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient…
- With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where…
- They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is…
- The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
- A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
- God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
- Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named…
- Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
More Countenance Quotes
- The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow… — John Aubrey
- There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt